Mar 08th, 2010
Blogsnapper at 10:03 am 
This jewelry made from reclaimed gun parts is a beautiful conversation piece. The intention of the GUN Reclamation Project is a statement about non-violence and transforming weapons into peaceful wearable art. I wonder if people who use and enjoy guns will want to wear them as well?
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Mar 08th, 2010
Blogsnapper at 10:03 am 
Rather than play the computer chess, why not make a chess set out of the
computer! Pawns The pawns are made from capacitors found on most CPU
power supplies, with a plastic figure base attached with epoxy. Chess
Board The board is the underside of a mother board, and 32 black
microprocessor …
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Mar 08th, 2010
Blogsnapper at 10:03 am 
A follow up… RealNetworks settles RealDVD case, drops product, pays $4.5m…
RealNetworks says it has settled the litigation over RealDVD, its software for making copies of DVDs on PC hard drives, agreeing to a permanent injunction against sales of the product and paying $4.5 million in legal costs and other fees to six major Hollywood studios and others that challenged the technology.
Here’s our previous post from 2008….
RealDVD is being touted as one of the only legal ways to “back up” DVDs. It seems to make a copy on your drive, keeps the DRM and adds more Real player style DRM. Here’s the funny part about all this - awhile back (1999) a ton of people were sued and got in trouble for trying to back up their DVDs, it still happens to this day although rare. That said you can’t build a DVD jukebox without getting sued. Most people nowadays rip DVDs using many of the free open source tools (lots of posts on MAKE about that). Back to 1999, when the encryption(s) on the DVDs were broken allowing copies to be made (DeCSS) - they key actually came from the XingDVD player, from Xing Technologies, a subsidiary of RealNetworks. I’m pretty sure to this day 2600 magazine cannot even link to the DeCSS program, source, or anything. I’m sticking with HandBrake.
Looks like I’m still sticking with handbrake… Makers, what do you use to rip DVDs? Or are you busy making things instead of archiving movies? 
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Mar 08th, 2010
Blogsnapper at 10:03 am 
Felt Me a Smile by Toyoko Sugiwaka
It’s impossible to open up Felt Me a Smile by Toyoko Sugiwaka and not smile. I dare you to try it. With pages upon pages of some of the cutest felted animals, you’ll enjoy the art of felting while making these adorable toys, ornaments, home decor accents, and more. How cute is the cover project of the hanging Bird Tent? This felting book is great because it covers both the technique of wet felting as well as needle felting. I enjoy doing both but as a beginner I find it hard to come up with ideas on what to felt. This book gives it all to you including step-by-step photos and templates to complete each project and includes lots of tips for beginners.
I love the photo spreads in the book. I could just flip through each page and soak in all the pretty pictures.
See more photos and enter the giveaway after the jump!
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Mar 08th, 2010
Blogsnapper at 10:03 am 
Do you like tacos? Do you like eating with chopsticks?
Garooob here with another fantastic Instructable. It’s called Taco
Sushi. Read on to make your own! (Actually, it should be
"Taco Maki" but who’s counting?) Shopping list This list
has all the ingredients to make taco sushi as instructe…
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Mar 08th, 2010
Blogsnapper at 10:03 am 
It’s been a little while since I published anything. I’ve been
super busy lately, working on many projects but not finishing
much. So, to satisfy my need to show off what I’ve been working
on, here is the crazy hat I made for my daughter’s school’s Crazy Hat
Day! Most of the materials came from m…
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Mar 08th, 2010
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Delicate embellishments are a classic way to spruce up just about anything. I remember having tiny pink ribbon roses on my favorite pinafore when I was young, and the dainty trend is retuning in a big way.
Materials:
Wide wired ribbon, about 1′
Thin ribbon, about 2′
Large eye needle
Thread a large eye needle with the narrow ribbon. Don’t knot it, just hold it in the needle with your fingers. Then run the whipstitch through a larger ribbon with a wired edge. Don’t worry about making a good even stitch, un-even and crooked whipstitching will make an interesting flower too. Then scrunch the wide ribbon down into a rose. To hold it all together, tightly knot the thin ribbon on the back side of the rosette. Beyond easy.
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Mar 08th, 2010
Blogsnapper at 09:03 am 
If you’re an argyle fan like me, you’ll love this argyle applique t-shirt tutorial from A Hoot and a Holler. Using scrap knit material from cut-up t-shirts and a little Heat ‘n Bond, she creates a fantastic argyle pattern on a long-sleeved t-shirt. I love it! [via Grosgrain]
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Mar 08th, 2010
Blogsnapper at 09:03 am 
Congratulations to Becky from Pittsboro, NC, Elsa from Portland, OR, and Enid from New York, NY for each winning a copy of Mason-Dixon Knitting by Kay Gardiner and Ann Shayne from our recent giveaway. Thanks to everyone who entered!
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Mar 08th, 2010
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This bird’s nest project from Tali of Growing Up Creative is an awesome twist on a paper mache process. I love that it incorporates recycled and natural materials. Best of all, it promises to be messy (and worth it!).
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